Name: Giuliani says he didn't know most Americans can't access his VIP coronavirus treatment regimen
Brand: salon.com
SKU: salon-com-188
Availability: OnlineOnly

critic

Giuliani says he didn't know most Americans can't access his VIP coronavirus treatment regimen

preview

U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani waits to testify before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on December 2, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan.--Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney and former New York City mayor, insisted that he has not changed his views about the dangerousness of COVID-19 despite his recent diagnosis — and even after he was informed that he had access to rare, expensive medications that most Americans with COVID-19&nbsp;do not.Speaking in an with&nbsp;New York's TalkRadio 77 WABC on Tuesday, Giuliani said that he has "exactly the same view" that the coronavirus pandemic is being exaggerated and that people don't need to wear masks, even as he spoke from a phone in a Washington DC hospital room because he had been infected. Giuliani added that "I've also been through cancer, a couple of other things —&nbsp;very serious, very serious, emergency knee operation. Things happen in life, and you have to go with them. You can't overreact to them. Otherwise, you let the fear of illness drive your entire life."Giuliani's comments echoed to being diagnosed with COVID-19 back in October, when the president tweeted, "Don't be afraid of Covid. Don't let it dominate your life." Like Trump, Giuliani has recently , often while shirking&nbsp;public health guidelines, in an attempt to&nbsp;overturn&nbsp;Biden's unambiguous victory in the 2020 presidential election.Like Trump, Giuliani has been treated with&nbsp; and dexamethasone, which one of the radio hosts pointed out is too expensive for ordinary Americans."I, well, I didn't know that. I mean, they give it to us here at this hospital," Giuliani told the radio hosts. He added that he was "not sure" their description was accurate.After being ,&nbsp;Trump was given the steroid dexamethasone to address his lowered oxygen levels;&nbsp;a five-day course of the antiviral drug remdesivir that is meant to improve recovery time for patients; and an 8 gram dose of an experimental drug called from the biotechnology company Regeneron.The treatment that President Trump got is certainly&nbsp;not available to all patients,&nbsp;Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, Salon by email in October. Benjamin's views were at the time by Dr. Richard D. Wolff, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."Privilege is the key adjective to describe not only the medical care Trump is now receiving but the entire package of first-rate health care provided freely to top officials, the Congress, etc," Wolff to Salon. "It is a long-standing reproach to the deep inequalities of US capitalism that the same governmental officials whose votes deny a first-rate universal health care system to the mass of Americans can and do luxuriate in just such a system for themselves. It only adds insult to that injury that the President gets medicines and treatments not available to the public."Besides being ignorant about the accessibility of his drug regimen, Giuliani also eschewed the scientific consensus on wearing masks to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.&nbsp;When asked by one of the hosts if his experience being hospitalized changed his view on masks, Giuliani replied "No. It does not. I think you can overdo the masks."Like Giuliani, Trump has repeatedly , even for regularly wearing a mask&nbsp;during one of the presidential debates.There is scientific consensus that masks prevent the spread of coronavirus. "Masks are important for catching droplets and microdroplet aerosols expelled while talking and breathing," Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, told Salon by email in July.&nbsp;Matthew Rozsa is a staff writer for Salon. He holds an MA in History from Rutgers University-Newark and is ABD in his PhD program in History at Lehigh University. His work has appeared in Mic, Quartz and MSNBC.MORE FROM

U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani waits to testify before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on December 2, 2020 in Lansing, Michigan.--Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney and former New York City mayor, insisted that he has not changed his views about the dangerousness of COVID-19 despite his recent diagnosis — and even after he was informed that he had access to rare, expensive medications that most Americans with COVID-19&nbsp;do not.Speaking in an with&nbsp;New York's TalkRadio 77 WABC on Tuesday, Giuliani said that he has "exactly...

public

Staff writer at Salon, BA at Bard, MA at Rutgers, ABD at Lehigh's PhD program Previous bylines at MSNBC, The Daily Dot, Mic, Quartz, The Good Men Project.

Matthew Rozsa

The original online source for news, politics and entertainment | Find us on Instagram & TikTok: salonofficial | Subscribe to our newsletters linked in bio.

Giuliani says he didn't know most Americans can't access his VIP coronavirus treatment regimen

No article scores yet.

CRITIC REVIEWS

PUBLIC REVIEWS